Atheist Bigotry

Prejudice and discrimination directed against religious, spiritual, theistic, metaphysical, psychic, mediumistic, occult, or otherwise non‑materialist individuals and groups, perpetrated by atheists, skeptics, scientific materialists, neopositivists, and those who equate their worldview with rationality itself. The bigotry often hides behind a supposed defense of “ideas” or “science,” but it attacks people—accusing them of mental illness (“delusional,” “schizophrenic”), fraud (“charlatan,” “quack”), or intellectual deficiency (“pseudo‑science,” “mumbojumbo”). By framing such attacks as mere criticism of beliefs, atheist bigotry denies its human impact while systematically humiliating, excluding, and pathologizing those whose worldviews differ from strict materialism.

Example: “He called her psychic practice ‘delusional quackery’ and said she needed a psychiatrist—not because she had harmed anyone, but because atheist bigotry taught him that spiritual belief is itself a sickness.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 25, 2026